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France to quarantine travellers arriving from Spain but not from the UK


The Local
Fri, 15 May 2020 19:31 UTC
French police
© AFP
France will impose quarantine on travellers arriving from Spain in a reciprocal measure after Madrid decided to restrict arrivals from Europe's Schengen zone, a presidential official said on Thursday.

Spain said on Tuesday it would from Friday impose a 14-day quarantine period on all travellers to avoid importing new virus cases.

"France will impose a 14-day quarantine from the moment Spain imposes the measure, based on the principle of reciprocity," a presidential official said.

The official did not give the precise date, saying this was still the subject of bilateral talks.

And imposing these kinds of restrictions "did not represent the desire" of France, added the official.
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Briefcase

Best of the Web: Criminal indictments for Philippine Dengue vaccine includes President of Sanofi Pasteur and their FDA


TrialSite News
Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
Philippine vaccinations
© Gregorio B. Dantes Jr./Pacific Press, via Getty ImagesPhilippine families in queue for vaccinations
The president of Sanofi Pasteur Inc., along with a former health chief and now politician, Rep Janette Garin have all been indicted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Philippines for reckless imprudence, resulting in homicide as a result of the deaths of children associated with the anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia. As a result of an ongoing investigation, government prosecutors found probable cause to file the charges against the named defendants as well as nine unnamed officials from the Department of Health, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine. Additional Sanofi Pasteur officials were indicted for violations of the Consumer Act of the Philippines.

Current Situation

Known as the Dengvaxia controversy, there were hundreds of deaths associated with a Philippines Deng immunization program in 2017. The Department of Health there ultimately suspended a school-based vaccine program utilizing French drug maker Sanofi Pasteur's Dengvaxia vaccine due to a number of deaths from various complications that allegedly attributed to the vaccine product. Thereafter, the company went public with a statement that its product, in fact, poses higher risk to people without prior dengue infection. By August 2019, over 600 people, mostly children, who received the vaccine have died. It must be emphasized that not all of these deaths are due to the vaccine itself. Regardless, the DOH banned the vaccine's sale or use in the Philippines.

Comment: Any potential vaccine should mandatorily undergo intense review and the risk factors made public knowledge. Killing the patient is not a preventative solution. Why were these vaccinations allowed to continue if even one recipient died from its dose?

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Bizarro Earth

Say what? Top economist wants older people to pay corona tax to support the young

Alan Hope
The Brussels Times
Fri, 15 May 2020 19:08 UTC
elderly couple
Tax the elderly to compensate the young?
A Belgian economist has proposed a special tax on older people to help the young overcome the economic problems caused by the coronavirus (Covid-19).

Older people aged over 65 years suffer disproportionately from the medical effects of the virus, admits Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, who teaches at Oxford university. But the economic effects come down hardest on the young.

"Young people benefit the least from the lockdown measures, because they are less susceptible to the virus," De Neve told VRT news. "The older generation should realise that young people are sacrificing themselves, both economically and in terms of mental health."

His suggestion: a corona-tax on the older generation, possibly a one-off tax, to be used to cushion the blow of the pandemic on the prospects of younger people.
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Footprints

Nearly 1M Michiganders defy coronavirus lockdown orders

Emma Colton
Washington Examiner
Fri, 15 May 2020 05:34 UTC
Michigan in the streets
© screenshotMichiganders defy Governor Whitmer's never-ending lockdown
Roughly 1 million people in Michigan began leaving their homes last week despite extended stay-at-home orders.

The New York Times conducted a study of cellphone data across the country and found that in Michigan, 39% of people stayed home last week, a dip from its peak at 50%. Though many people have stayed home through most of the pandemic, roughly 1 million people began moving last week. The New York Times reported:
"No state saw a larger drop in the share of people staying home last week than Michigan, even though its stay-at-home order remained in place. While half of the state's residents stayed home on average during the preceding six weeks, that number declined by nearly 11 percentage points last week, as approximately one million people there started moving around again."

Comment: Digging in her heels, Whitmer is clearly out of step with her constituency. It does not behoove a governor to allow his or her own stubborn issues and programmed bias to cloud judgement for the masses under her jurisdiction. What is she afraid of?

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Bad Guys

People using Covid-19 as fake 'attacks' face biological weapons hoax charges

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Fri, 15 May 2020 18:46 UTC
police jackboots coronavirus
© Reuters / Jessica Rinaldi; Reuters / Hannah McKay
Accidentally spreading Covid-19 is wanting grandma dead, say opponents of ending lockdowns. Yet activists now worry that proposed laws to punish those who threaten to spread it deliberately would discriminate against minorities.

A Florida man spat and coughed on a police officer responding to a domestic violence call, and faces up to five years in prison on a federal charge of biological weapons hoax (he was negative for Covid-19). Another man in Texas, who falsely claimed on Facebook that he paid someone to spread the virus at local grocery stores, was charged with the same thing. A Michigan man who wiped his face with a store employee's shirt might get three months in jail and a $500 fine for misdemeanor assault and battery.

These are just some of the recent incidents across the US highlighted by Reuters, as Covid-19 lockdowns - originally intended to last for two weeks - have stretched to two months, with some jurisdictions saying they want to extend them indefinitely.

Comment: This isn't about racial discrimination and it is certainly not comparable to intentionally spreading AIDS. COVID-19 has a mortality rate below 1%! It's nothing like AIDS. In any case, the issue here is the hysteria surrounding this fake pandemic. Those doing these hoaxes are dumb, but the punishment does not fit the crime. The real agenda here seems to impose greater and greater draconian measures on society.

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Bad Guys

CNN's teen panelist Thunberg begs world to 'listen to the experts' on coronavirus - collective eye-rolling ensues


RT
Fri, 15 May 2020 18:12 UTC
Thunberg
© REUTERS/Jessica GowPandemic 'expert' Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg sparked controversy after telling CNN viewers to follow the guidance of experts as the world combats coronavirus - even as the teen panelist admitted she's not an authority on the health crisis.

CNN came under fire after announcing that the Swedish teen would participate in a Covid-19 town-hall event hosted by Anderson Cooper and CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta. Critics of the decision to include Thunberg argued that the climate activist was not qualified to speak about the pandemic.

Judging by Thunberg's remarks during the discussion, it appears she at least partly agrees with her detractors.

Comment: CNN is only a few gaffes away from confirming their complete irrelevance. A few more choice comments on Ms. Thunberg's appearance:





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V

Aussie protesters mobilize against lockdown tyranny, chant 'arrest Bill Gates'

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ News
Thu, 14 May 2020 17:11 UTC
australia protest
On May 10th 2020, hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters gathered in front of the Parliament House in Melbourne. This comes as the Australian government has generally adhered to the recommendations made by the Bill Gates influenced WHO. Their grievances include an opposition to mandatory vaccination, the closing of the economy, unconstitutional lock-down and social distancing regulations, and significantly - 'ARREST BILL GATES'.

In this clip, the protesters break into a chant, "Arrest Bill Gates", and increasingly popular demand, worldwide.


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Book 2

Hey, Google, your censorship of 'Plandemic' only turned its author's book into #1 bestseller. It's the Streisand effect, stupid!

Guy Birchall
RT
Fri, 15 May 2020 15:35 UTC
Judy Mikovits
© Elevate/PlandemicJudy Mikovits. A screenshot from the documentary 'Plandemic'
The increasingly heavy-handed restrictions used by the likes of Facebook and YouTube are backfiring. Their suppression of Dr Judy Mikovits' 'Plandemic' film has simply made her books soar to No. 1 in the bestseller charts.

Attempts by the tech giants of Silicon Valley to stop the spread of 'misinformation' by pulling down a Covid-19 documentary are starting to make the planet's botched attempts to contain coronavirus look successful.

There are few certainties in life, and even fewer during these difficult times in which we find ourselves. Although the infamous troublesome twosome of 'death and taxes' are having something of a field day at the moment, the certainty I would like to discuss is the depressingly constant presence of censorship and, specifically, how spectacularly counterproductive it is. This has recently been demonstrated most effectively by Silicon Valley's attempts to stop 'wrong-thinking' people from using their platforms to spread their message.

Comment: Considering then just how spectacularly this latest round of censorship has backfired, one wonders if it wasn't the goal to begin with in the way that James Corbett outlines here. Essentially giving the alternative media and counter-COVID thinkers enough rope to hang themselves. If and when the information overlords decide to put in place a full lockdown of the internet they could justify it by saying they need to stop the spread of all heterodox information sharing because it lead to a second or third wave of COVID-related deaths. For that we'll have to wait and see, but it's not beyond their methods or means. In the meantime, readers can judge for themselves whether 'Plandemic' and Dr Judy Mikovits' censorship was warranted:

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Black Cat

My Israeli nemesis is moving to America

Ariel Gold
Mondoweiss
Thu, 14 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Gilad Erdan
Gilad Erdan speaks during a February 2019 press conference announcing a Ministry of Strategic Affiars report on the BDS movement.
My first run in with Israeli politician Gilad Erdan took place on July 1, 2018, when I arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, passport and visa in hand. After seven hours of interrogation, I was told that Erdan had had my visa revoked and was sending me directly back to the U.S. "We prevented Ariel Gold, an extreme boycott activist, from entering the country," he pompously tweeted.

Gilad Erdan tweet
Now my nemesis is moving to America. On Monday May 11, Erdan was appointed by Netanyahu to become the next ambassador to both the United States and United Nations.

To be fair, I am far from the first or most important person to be denied entry to Israel by Gilad Erdan. Erdan led the charge to deport Human Rights Watch's Omar Shakir was the same politician denied entry to Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar in August 2019. Still, back in 2018, he found the time to publicize his gripe against me. "Gold distributed videos on social networks, in which she harasses IDF soldiers and Border Police officers in Hebron, accusing the soldiers of apartheid and oppression, and that their actions do not conform to Jewish values," he told the media.
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Dominoes

'Worse than it looks': More than 1 million workers have hours cut in Australia

John Kehoe
Australian Financial Review
Thu, 14 May 2020 16:57 UTC
Australia
© Youtube/SunriseSunrise, an Australian morning television program
The official 6.2 per cent unemployment rate conceals the full pain being felt by workers and the damage that COVID-19 restrictions have done to the economy.

The "devastating" stress in the labour market that Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks of is exposed by the number of hours worked falling twice as fast as the decline in the number of people employed.

Of the 2.7 million individual workers affected by job losses or reduced hours in April, 1.8 million people worked fewer hours, including 750,000 who were still employed but worked no hours at all, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates.

Comment: The damage wrought by the unjustified and tyrannical lockdowns has only just begun to be revealed:

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